Soft Focus Effects

There are many times when we might wish to re-create a traditional photographic effect digitally. Digital affords us the oportunity to apply effects "after-the-fact" instaed of at the time of capture. This is desireable for many reasons. However, many photographers find it hard to duplicate certain lens/filter efftects in Photoshop. This tutorial covers various soft focus and diffusion techniques that mimic those found in traditional photography.

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You will learn many techniques used in combination to achieve an overall effect, including:

• Gausian Blur

• Layers & Layer Masks

• Layer Apply Modes

• Gradients in Layer Masks

• Curves & Hue/Saturation adjustment layers

• Film Grain Effects

The sample files used in the tutorial can be downloaqded from a link in the PDF file.

21 page PDF - 1.3 meg download
Special Downloading Note: You must click this link to get to the "Download" page. This page gives you the link to download the file – you can bookmark the page to return to it later but it is best to click the download link and download the file right away. There are instructions on the download page for saving the PDF to your hard drive and a link for Windows users to get "Stuffit Expander" to decompress sample files.